3DSOM Pro User Guide

1. Introduction to 3DSOM Pro and this guide
2. Installing 3DSOM Pro

1. The Photo Shoot

1. 1.1. What you will need
2. 1.2. Lighting and camera setup
3. 1.3. Taking the photographs
4. 1.4. Saving the photographs

2. Basic Use of 3DSOM Pro

1. 2.1. Tour of the 3DSOM Pro user interface
2. 2.2. Creating a 3DSOM Pro Project
3. 2.3. Masking the images
4. 2.4. Building the wireframe model
5. 2.5. Adding the surface texture
6. 2.6. Exporting the finished model

3. User Interface Reference

1. 3.1. The main toolbar
2. 3.2. The main menu
3. 3.3. The Thumbnail Window
4. 3.4. The Edit Masks Window
5. 3.5. The View Model Window
6. 3.6. The 3DSOM Pro Settings Window

4. Intermediate Tutorials

1. 4.1. Calibrating the Lens
2. 4.2. Fine tuning the auto-masking
3. 4.3. Manual masking with the shrink-wrap tool
4. 4.4. Optimising the surface geometry
5. 4.5. Compressing the geometry with subdivision surfaces
6. 4.6. Adding synthetic silhouettes
7. 4.7. Adding texture underneath an object
8. 4.8. Editing the textures
9. 4.9. The Web Optimizer tool

5. Advanced Tutorials

1. 5.1. Advanced Masking for a large set of images
2. 5.2. Creating or editing masks in an external application
3. 5.3. Merging multiple scans
4. 5.4. Taking the right photos
5. 5.5. Editing the geometry in an external application
6. 5.6. Advanced texture editing
7. 5.7. View-dependent textures
8. 5.8. Texturing a CAD model
9. 5.9. Modelling a part of an object

6. The 3DSOM Pro Java Viewer

1. 6.1. About the 3DSOM Pro Java Viewer
2. 6.2. Using the viewer on web pages
3. 6.3. Changing the model appearance
4. 6.4. Hotspots
5. 6.5. Scripting the Java viewer
6. 6.6. Applet parameter reference

7. The 3DSOM Pro Flash Viewer

1. 7.1. About the 3DSOM Pro Flash Viewer
2. 7.2. Using the Flash 3D viewer on web pages
3. 7.3. Flash Viewer Parameter Reference
4. 7.4. Scripting the Flash Viewer

1. Copyright and legal notices
2. Glossary of terminology